US EditionAustria: ÖVP, SPÖ and Neos form coalition
- The People's Party, Social Democrats, and Neos completed negotiations to form a new government after a record 151 days since the September election.
- The three-party coalition, the first since the late 1940s, is set to take office next week pending approval from all parties.
- Herbert Kickl, leader of the Freedom Party, criticized the coalition as a 'coalition of losers' and called for a snap election.
- The coalition agreement includes strict new asylum rules for Austria, which has a population of 9 million.
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New Austrian centrist government takes power after far right fails to form coalition
The centrist alliance formed on its second attempt after the longest post-World War II negotiations in Austria, following the far-right, anti-immigration, and euroskeptic Freedom Party's emergence as the strongest force in last fall's parliamentary election
The consultation with the bases of the liberal party NEOS expressed majority support for forming a tripartite government and preventing the coming to power of the ultra-right, winner of the parliamentary elections. A new coalition government will take office this Monday in Austria, after this Sunday the bases of the party NEOS were in favour of supporting a formation in which also the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP, Conservative) and the Austrian …
For the first time since 1949, it will be a tripartite coalition that will govern Austria. A way to prevent the FPÖ nationalist party, which came to the top of the September elections, from being in business.
After five months of talks, the liberal Neos party voted to enter into a coalition agreement with the center-left Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Austrian conservative Peo. According to foreign media, the three parties had announced the coalition agreement last week, but members of the liberal Neos party still had to approve the agreement to join the government. The new government will be sworn in on Monday, ending a five-month wait since Austria…
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